'63 WAS A BAD YEAR FOR SOVIET SPIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400100096-8
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 14, 2003
• Sequence Number: 96
• Publication Date: January 14, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

N1 W YORK
JAN 14 1964
J6CT1Z NAL Aa"iE?:TCk roved For Release 2003/12/02: CIA-R 5-Q ,G01
By WARREN ROGERS
'rFASHINGTON: 'All in all, the hit program on the
-espionage circuit during the year just past was
i "Sing Along With Ivan Ivanovich."
And the star of that show was a reserve Russian
colonel named Oleg V. Penkovsky, who unfortunately
paid for that dubious honor with his life.' Penkovsky,
probabLy a double agent, talked to "
American and British intelligence ex-
ports and, when finally arrested,
sang to their Russian counterparts In
Moscow's bleak Lubyanka Prison.
The upshot was a rash of arrests,.
exposures, and defections among es-
pionage agents in many countries, In-
eluding the United States. It is diffi-
cult to pinpoint precisely which
among these are attributable to Pen-
kovsky. Those who know are in a pro-
fession which makes a fetish of dis-
cretion, but they concede that the loss
of Penkovsky had a vast chain reaction.
The 44-year-old colonel, a trusted scientific co-
ordinator who worked Intimately with Russia's top
scientific and military leaders, was executed in May.
'He confessed to a Moscow military court that he 'had
passed military, political and economic secrets to. the
British and Americans for 17 months. Greville M.?
Wynne, a British businessman, confessed he was Pen-
kovsky's "contact" and drew an eight-year sentence.'
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